Description
Trees: branching unknown; twigs angular, soon becoming terete, ca. 8 mm diam.; epidermis black, barely visible due to indument cover; terminal bud plump, ca. 1 X 1 mm; cataphylls caducous; indument puberulous, caducous after one flush, the hairs dense, up to 1 mm long, straight to curved, erect, golden. Leaves: petioles robust, 2.5–4.2 cm X 0.3–0.6 mm, adaxially flattened; blades chartaceous, flat, broadly obovate to elliptic or oblong, 16–29(–39) X 6–11(–17) cm; base acute to obtuse, 80–130°; apex acute to obtuse, 80–120°, ultimately acuminate for up to 1.5(–2.5) cm; margin plane; primary vein above slightly impressed to flat, below prominent; secondary veins (12–)14–17 pairs, equidistant, brochidodromous, above flat, below prominent, diverging at 45–60°, abruptly arching near margin, chordal angle 45–60°, the angle uniform along blade length; tertiary veins above slightly raised, below raised, conspicuously scalariform; higher order veins above slightly raised, below raised; surface above shiny brown, below dull creamy brown; indument above absent, the primary vein puberulous, below tomentose, the hairs dense, up to 0.4 mm long, straight to curved, erect, yellowish, denser on the veins, persisting for at least two flushes. Staminate inflorescences: along whole length of flush to acrotonic, pendulous, peduncles 10–20 cm long, the hypopodia 3–6 cm X ca. 3.5 mm, branch orders 3, the second-order branches 13–18, dispersed, lowest branch up to 3.5 cm long, color and indument of all axes as on twigs; bracts caducous (not seen); bracteoles persistent or caducous, up to 2 mm long, adaxially glabrous. Staminate flowers: pedicels ca. 1.2 X 1.4 mm, the diameter even throughout; receptacle globose, ca. 4 X 3.6 mm, constricted at the place of tepal inception; tepals coriaceous, ovate, ca. 2.2 X 1.8 mm, at anthesis spreading, yellowish-brown, adaxially puberulous; stamens of whorls I and II loriform, the anthers oblong, ca. 1.6 X 0.6 mm, puberulous, the locelli 4, apical, in a shallow arch, the upper pair introrse, the lower pair latrorse, the glands absent; whorls II and III fused for two thirds of their lengths into a tube; whorl III loriform, ca. 2.4 X 0.8 mm, puberulous, the locelli 4, the upper pair latrorse, the lower pair extrorse, the glands minute, ca. 0.4 mm diam.; whorl IV absent; all stamens reddish-brown; pistillode filiform, ca. 1 X 0.3 mm, glabrous. Pistillate flowers: pistil ca. 4 X 1.6 mm; ovary globose, ca. 2.8 mm long, glabrous. Fruits: pedicels up to 10 X 5 mm, abruptly enlarging to form the cupule; cupule hemispherical, up to 15 X 25 mm, smooth, the margin straight, tepals caducous; berry elliptic, up to 40 X 22 mm.
